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What's the difference between StoryBoard Quick and StoryBoard Artist and StoryBoard Artist Studio?
StoryBoard Quick is great for creating Quick shot setups and concept ideas for clients and crew. With StoryBoard Quick, it's easy to design and refine your shot ideas for scenes and/or sequences in your production without needing to draw. The printing formats are also Quick and easy and each frame has a caption window to add dialog or camera notes.
StoryBoard Artist is Quick and more. It's used for designing and creating presentation-style story boards with sound and motion (runtime animatics). The StoryBoard Artist Timeline feature adds the ability to give greater dimension to your previsualization using the Pan and Zoom in-frame motion, transitions between frames and two tracks of sound. StoryBoard Artist also includes linking features and a Link View to assist in designing non-linear or branching storyboards for game development and simulation projects. Its print features are highly customizable to take advantage of the application's multiple–caption-per-frame feature and integrated database. StoryBoard Artist also exports to QuickTime, HTML and XML.
StoryBoard Artist Studio has all the features of StoryBoard Artist and adds the print-to-sketch feature (where digital elements are printed as if you sketched them yourself), extremely customizable page layouts, added Timeline features with 16 tracks of sound and locking ranges to fine-tune edits. |
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How easy is it to learn StoryBoard Quick?
StoryBoard Quick's learning curve is extremely short. You can download the software and after installation, you can be productive within minutes. There are video tutorials on the website, but most directors say they can easily board the next day's shoot faster than ever. Video tutorials are available for registered users for extra tips and tricks! |
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How simple is it to use StoryBoard Artist?
StoryBoard Artist is also easy-to-learn. It's intuitive and if you're familiar with other graphic applications, its workflow will feel familiar. Designed by creative people who work in the entertainment industry, StoryBoard Artist keeps the technical aspects of the computer safely hidden leaving only the most creative elements easily accessible. StoryBoard Artist enables you to add sound to your presentation and transitions between frames. If you can draw, you can import Photoshop files into your frames from layers or files. |
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How does the pre-drawn art work?
One of the more import pieces of information to communicate in storyboards besides your story idea is the spatial relationship between the elements in the frame. The pre-drawn artwork is integrated in built-in libraries that have been identified as "key elements." The categories are characters, props and locations. But you can also place text in the frame or other importable graphics such as logos or overlays. Each graphic remains on its own layer so the elements can be manipulated separately and the layers can be moved forward or back.
Using the Library grid, you can easily choose the character pose and position. o Zoom with a click and the character comes into a close-up. Using the location library gives you choices of pre-drawn background locations that, when selected in StoryBoard Quick, are automatically placed into the background layer. So with two clicks, you've created the beginning of your first board and shown some important information that your crew needs to know or that you'll need to impress your client. |
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Can I use my own pictures or photographs?
Yes! In fact, directors find it very valuable to import actual location-scout images. This is easy using a digital camera. All our storyboarding software can import pictures for use as items in the frame including characters, props, and backgrounds. You can take locations with a digital camera or search the Internet for location pictures. All items, including imports, can be easily layered, moved, and edited individually without disturbing your frame composition. Set your shots with Quick images and then go find your real locations and substitute the pictures. It's not just easy, it stimulates your creativity. |
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What if I need a reverse angle for a shot?
Take a cue from professional filmmakers and make your reverse angles easy. Simply move the background to see a different view or just scale it larger or smaller. The magic of filmmaking comes from the illusion created within the viewfinder. The view we see doesn't have to be reality, it just must communicate. If the background is different but relevant or related, that's all the audience knows. Filmmakers have long used the trick of shooting a character from a low angle against the sky…and can you tell where it is? No, but it looks like they're in the same location as before because there was a blue sky in the last shot. Very often pickup shots or second unit directors use this trick when they can no longer access the same location. We provided the elements, you provide the creativity.
If you want an automatic reverse angle shot, use the New QuickShot feature of StoryBoard Quick Studio. Quick Studio adds more poses, a Quick version of the popular print-to-sketch (previously only available in StoryBoard Artist Studio) and the ability to instantly create the type of shot you want. Now, really, how much easier can we make it? |
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What about high and low angles?
In StoryBoard Quick and StoryBoard Artist, characters and elements are rendered in many angles and rotations, making them instantly accessible. Quick characters comes with three elevations (high, eye-level, and low) while Artist adds an overhead view as well as close-up facial expressions. Keeping your ultimate goal in mind of actually making your production will give you momentum to create the board. Storyboarding is a means to an end. With our software you can get to your production a lot quicker. |
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Can I put the pre-drawn characters into any pose?
Some specialty libraries vary from these positions to accommodate the library style (i.e. the Stuntman library and the original Kids library). StoryBoard Quick Studio also comes with twice the poses, adding Phoning, Point-Shoot, Punching, Driving, Typing, and Lounging to your Character Palette. You can also get creative and use the crop tool to combine parts of one character's pose with parts of another pose and come up with an infinite number of positions. The characters are two-dimensional graphics. No rendering necessary or complicated 3D to learn. Point, click and direct them into their screen position. |
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How can my crew view my boards on the Internet?
With one click, you can save your storyboard in a web-ready format ready to be emailed or uploaded to the Internet. StoryBoard Quick 6 exports to a simple Flash movie. In StoryBoard Artist, you can also save your storyboard as a movie so everyone can see the timing of your plan as well. |
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Where do I put my text or scripts?
Each frame in a storyboard usually has captions or text areas attached. You can import your script or type directly into your caption window/s. When importing text that has been saved from a script formatting program, new frames are automatically created, ready for images to be added. Frames can be inserted and deleted as needed to expand some scenes and shorten others. |
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How many frames can I make?
There is no limit to the number of frames in a project. You are only limited by the amount of disk space on your computer. |
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Will the storyboarding application create the boards for me?
When importing formatted script text, blank frames are automatically created per your selection of elements. For example, you can instruct the application to make a new frame with each new slug line or with every new scene, then start adding your visuals to the frames. You can also drag and drop a folder of images to create a series of frames as well.
With StoryBoard Quick Studio’s new QuickShots Technology, you now also have the ability to define a few parameters such as shot type, location and characters, and then sit back while Quick Studio does the work for you!
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How can I store my own artwork?
You can drag and drop artwork directly into the frame from folders full of artwork or import using the menus. StoryBoard Artist and StoryBoard Artist Studio provide the ability to create your own libraries of artwork that can be accessed and manipulated instantly. |
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Who uses storyboarding software?
Thousands of professional directors, writers, producers and independent filmmakers around the world find they benefit creatively by storyboarding with our software. Work out story ideas, help writer's block, plan out shot set ups and sequence flow. Our software applications have been used at and by most of the major Hollywood studios and are used on productions worldwide including features films, TV sitcoms, TV game shows and by thousands of freelance commercial production companies. |
